Resources

The go-to place for opportunities, funding, jobs and more in the social enterprise space in Australia. They also have plenty of great resources including marketing, budgeting, social enterprise model design and more.

Social Traders are on a mission to help social enterprises get access to more and bigger buyers, fuelling their business. This is called Social Procurement. Not sure what that means?

Our friends in QLD have been operating for many years, and have lots of great information to support social entrepreneurs, including this whole resource kit on how to get started.

Impact North is a founding member of the Australian Social Enterprise Network Alliance (ASENA). ASENA exists to work for and with the sector on principles of cooperation and collaboration – a strong, united voice representing the interests of Australia’s social enterprise sector.

Are you a remote Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander founder? Enterprise Learning Projects runs a range of programs to empower remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entrepreneurs to transform their communities through enterprise.

There are thousands of social enterprises around Australia. But the sector is fragmented and underserved at a time where it’s more critical than ever to accelerate the transition to an impact economy that serves all. Excitingly, there is now a movement underfoot to bring our sector together and develop a Social Enterprise National Strategy (SENS) that will strengthen and accelerate our efforts.

SEWF 2022 is the event for the global social enterprise community, providing space for purpose-led people, policymakers, philanthropists, intermediaries and entrepreneurs to learn from and be inspired by the potential of sustainable economic initiatives. And it’s in Australia! Join in-person in Brisbane, or online to be a part of the world’s largest social enterprise conversation.

Interested in crowd-funding your next big idea? Our friends at StartSomeGood run a world-class crowd-funding program and coach you through every step so you can get your project funded. They offer a (free!) and very practical 5-part email course to help you get started.

Impact Boom is our go-to for inspiration. We’ve even been featured! You’re bound to find an idea or story that helps you on your social enterprise journey.

Looking for funding alerts in Northern Australia? MintKey regularly shares funding opportunities for communities, social enterprise and nonprofits in our region.

RDANT supports sustainable development in the NT, and are a great go-to to understand what opportunities there are to fund and grow initiative. They also do great funding opportunity emails straight to your inbox.